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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1925
Page
4
The Wakefield News of Wakefield Michigan publishes every Saturday. Subscription rates appear on the page with a price of 2.00 per month or similar. The issue notes mail matter status and lists H L Trezise as editor and publisher.
The Ironwood city manager W M Rich reports six months of strong reform under the commissioner-manager form. He notes salary adjustments, elimination of redundant activities, and a push on public improvements including water contracts, street work, and better fire and police protection. The city’s treasury is healthier, with funds extending to December 1, and plans for White Way extension, concrete paving, and sewer and water projects next year. He argues against critics and supports the system as efficient for any city.
A Wakefield community raises over 300 dollars for the Joseph Mehevic family, showing strong Christian spirit in emergencies as residents respond to aid an afflicted family. Plans for next year include state highway work and extending M-28 to the Wisconsin line.
Arthur Brisbane critiques Dean Inge's birth control stance and warns against an international protocol banning chemical warfare. He argues birth rates vary by class and parries moral outrage, then defends chemical weapons as a “humane” modern tactic, contrasting it with old battlefield slaughter.
A collection of quirky exchanges and humorous vignettes from a small town page. Banter includes farm life quips about feeding cows and oats, a child’s toy gift remark, and city life gags about a sunset, a duke at dinner, and a Boston bride in a wedding gown.
The discussion urges moving the project to secure location before Bessemer and Ironwood protest. It argues financial benefits favor Wakefield and stresses the need to push the plan now before other county districts lock in a site.
The article contrasts aggressive military buildup with a warning about botched warfare strategy and pollinating pests. August Heckscher is highlighted for bold property investments including a 12 story Broadway building bought for 17 million dollars. The piece ends with a ironic moral urging timely real estate purchases.
An assortment of comical vignettes and tall tales. A bride-to-be’s misstep with a lily at the altar prompts a quip about a lily’s placement. A village convert drinks at communion and declares she could gulp a gallon for the dear Lord. A sharp barrister quips with a farming witness about marriages and women. A rattlesnake tale ends with the creature guarding a home after a burglar is rattled by its tail.
The health column argues that dental diseases are the most common afflictions of civilized man. It notes teeth were once treated as natural and minor problems with little effort to prevent loss. A long, garbled fill likely from a puzzle follows, with scattered clues and partial phrases.
The article explains how bacteria from untreated dental disease can travel via the bloodstream, affecting joints, heart, nerves, and other body parts. It stresses that most damage occurs in infancy and youth when teeth form and cannot repair later, urging public health measures to prevent childhood decay. It notes surveys showing high decay rates among children, impacts on learning, and the need for school-based dental care and parental reports to monitor mouth health. It also adds miscellaneous historical notes about silk usage in Madagascar, opal gifts by Queen Victoria, Ohio banks offering 5 percent savings, Rembrandt portraits, and Montana’s state flower named for Captain Lewis.
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